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God's eye

idiom
Meaning

A decorative diamond-shaped item woven from yarn, associated with Mexican and Central and South American Native American peoples.


Examples
SIMPLE

We made a colorful God's eye in art class today.

CONTEXTUAL

The children carefully wrapped bright yarn around the sticks to create a traditional God's eye.

COMPLEX

During the cultural workshop, the instructor explained the historical significance of the God's eye before teaching the students how to weave their own.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

    compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting of an identical injury on that person.

  2. 02

    apple of someone's eye

    The object of somebody's affections; a person (or sometimes a thing) that someone strongly prefers; a favorite, a loved one.

  3. 03

    blink of an eye

    A moment (a very short period of time).

  4. 04

    camel through the eye of a needle

    Hyperbole to illustrate something that is impossible to do or to make happen.

  5. 05

    catch someone's eye

    To capture someone's attention.

  6. 06

    catch the eye

    To attract the attention

  7. 07

    close one eye

    to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression).

  8. 08

    dry eye

    An eye which is not crying, i.e. someone emotionally unmoved.

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